Best Picture: “The Hurt Locker”

Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker”

Best Actor: Jeremy Renner, “The Hurt Locker”

Best Actress: Yolande Moreau, “Seraphine”

Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds,” and Paul Schneider, “Bright Star”

Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique, “Precious”

Best Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen, “A Serious Man”

Best Foreign-Language Film: “Summer Hours”

Best Non-Fiction Film: “The Beaches of Agnes”

Best Cinematography: Christian Berger, “The White Ribbon”

Best Production design: Nelson Lowry, “Fantastic Mr. Fox”

Break-down:

BEST PICTURE
*1. "The Hurt Locker" 64 (Kathryn Bigelow)
2. "Summer Hours" 23 (Olivier Assayas)
3. "Inglourious Basterds" 17 (Quentin Tarantino)

BEST DIRECTOR
*1. Kathryn Bigelow 85 ("The Hurt Locker")
2. Olivier Assayas 23 ("Summer Hours")
3. Wes Anderson 18 ("Fantastic Mr. "Fox")

BEST ACTRESS
*1. Yolande Moreau 22 ("Seraphine")
2. Meryl Streep 21 ("Julie & Julia" and "Fantastic Mr. Fox")
3. Abbie Cornish 19 ("Bright Star")

BEST ACTOR
*1. Jeremy Renner 30 (The Hurt Locker")
2. Jeff Bridges 24 ("Crazy Heart")
3. Nicolas Cage 15 ("Bad Lieutenant")


BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
*1. Mo’Nique 28 ("Precious")
2. Anna Kendrick 24 ("Up in the Air")
2. Samantha Morton 24 ("The Messenger")

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
*1. Christoph Waltz 28 ("Inglourious Basterds")
*1. Paul Schneider 28 ("Bright Star")
3. Christian McKay 27 ("Me and Orson Welles")

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
*1. "Summer Hours" 61 (Olivier Assayas)
2. "Everlasting Moments" 21 (Jan Troell)
3. "Police, Adjective" 20 (Corneliu Porumboiu)
3. "35 Shots of Rum" 20 (Claire Denis)

BEST NONFICTION FILM
*1. "The Beaches of Agnes" 40 (Agnes Varda)
2. "Tyson" 30 (James Toback)
3. "Anvil! The Story of Anvil" 25 (Sacha Gervasi)

BEST SCREENPLAY
*1. Joel and Ethan Coen 33 ("A Serious Man")
2. Olivier Assayas 25 ("Summer Hours")
3. Quentin Tarantino 22 ("Inglourious Basterds")

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
*1. "The White Ribbon" 33 (Christian Berger)
2. "The Hurt Locker" 32 (Barry Ackroyd)
3. "Everlasting Moments" 19 (Jan Troell)

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
*1. Nelson Lowry 43 ("Fantastic Mr. Fox")
2. Rick Carter 28 ("Avatar")
3. Henry Selick 12 ("Coraline")


http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_gol ... -news.html

Boo hiss at no love for Up in the Air.

But great for Schneider! Brilliant performance, well deserved honor. The way Bright Star has fallen out of major contention this season continues to baffle and upset me.

like NSFC would ever recognize that.

Seriously why is this trend here. No doubt these are good movies not in any ways the best in lot. I am in for Avatar(because of revolution it might bring to cinema and a grand worldwide appeal), Up in the Air (I see a more acting vehicle than Best Picture but still a splendid movie nonetheless), The Hurt Locker (Very very strong movie but there are some scenes that captivate you but the other parts just fall flat. Though the debacle at box office could hurt it a bit. Hopefully the film would have reached to all the academy members)

debacle at the box office? what the hell are you talking about? the film grossed 12 million dollars and the highest theater count was 535.


and what revolution did avatar bring to cinema? it sure the hell isn't storytelling.

Avatar: Nope not story-telling but the revolution of experiencing the cinema in a different way. And bringing a lot of crowd to see the movie both Domestically and overseas.

The Hurt Locker: Though it made the same as the production budget I think so 535 theaters is not that big number. If they could have pushed this movie a little bit more it could have made fortunes. Aside from Production there will be marketing budget as well which these days is not cheap, it will not recover that. The film of this caliber should reach everywhere (look at "Up in the Air" very small budget ~ around 20M).

i'm sorry but being the highest grossing movie doesn't qualify you to get best picture. Or else roland emmerich would have an oscar.

of course 535 theaters is not a big number. pushed the film more? it was a film with a subject matter people don't go see, as proven by the utter disaster of most Iraq film, with a no name director and a no name cast.

and you can't compare it to up in the air. up in the air had george clooney and jason reitman.

i mean seriously, is this guy for real? I feel like i should apologize to the guy making fun of you because you really are a moron

First of all there is a difference between highest grossing and movie experience and Avatar has made way more than 2012. I meant he drew in crowds for making them view 3-D format. There is another successful movie which will be nominated that was released in 3-D (namely Up) but it did not score 1B WW even when carrying Pixar's name.

If a movie is good then a little bit of promotion can help do wonders. This year of all has been wonderful in that category with the likes of Paranormal Activity and The Hangover where the former made loads of money with new comers and minuscule budget and the later did not have any star-power (then) to make it a success. I will not believe if someone says that The Hurt Locker has no commercial value to it.

Finally I do not believe in jumping to conclusions or giving names (and why do you quote my post and pretend like you are talking to someone else????) I will ignore the last statement because I think there are better ways to talk then to call someone morons

Just if I did not make myself clear I wanted all these 3 films to be nominated here. So for me they are the very best of the year. It is just that I like one film better than the other. Maybe we are not on the same page for one or two movies but then it is very common isn't it?

roland emmerich did independence day, which was the film i was referring to since i'm pretty sure 2012 isn't the highest grossing film of the year.

and you cannot compare an iraqi war drama to a horror movie and a screwball comedy. And you also have to look at the company supporting them

The Hurt Locker: USA - Summit
Paranormal Activity: USA - Paramount & Dreamworks
The hangover: USA - Waner Brothers

Hmmmmm I wonder which film had the smallest company handling it's US rights...............?

and i'm not arguing which films you want nominated. I'm arguing that for whatever reason, you think The Hurt Locker's 12 million dollar gross is a debacle. Which again, I state, makes you a moron.

Well again now you shift your comparisons from Star Power to Movie Genre and others. I am pretty sure that there are many Iraq war movies that would have made more than 12M, but then I see that you have decided to go against me in this one.

So have it your way then, I accept the title graciously

$12 million for it is not a "debacle"...but it is not good either.